阿联酋航空公司将建造全球最大太阳能发电厂

据阿纳多卢新闻7月30日消息称，根据阿布扎比阿联酋航空水电公司（EWEC）最近的一份声明，该公司与财团签署了一项购电协议，将在阿联酋建设世界上最大的太阳能发电厂。

该财团将由阿布扎比国家能源公司(TAQA)和马斯达尔牵头，合作伙伴为EDF和JinkoPower。

该太阳能发电厂位于距离阿布扎比约35公里的Al Dhafra地区，建成后将拥有2吉瓦的发电能力。

该工厂还预计将减少阿布扎比每年超过240万吨的二氧化碳排放，相当于减少约47万辆汽车。

EWEC首席执行官Othman Al Ali在声明中说：“我们正在努力确保长期的能源供应，并加强太阳能在满足当前和未来能源需求方面的不可或缺的作用。”

该声明称，该电厂将于2022年上半年开始发电，到2022年下半年实现全发电。

TAQA董事总经理Jasim Husain Thabet表示，该工厂将把阿布扎比的太阳能发电能力提高到约3.2吉瓦，并强调该项目的低电价将有助于实现阿联酋《2050年能源战略》中概述的雄心勃勃的能源目标。

Al Dhafra太阳能光伏项目预计将为阿联酋的约160000个家庭提供电力。它的规模将超过TAQA现有的1.2吉瓦阿布扎比努尔太阳能发电厂，该发电厂目前是全球最大的可运营单项目太阳能光伏发电厂。

曹海斌 摘译自 阿纳多卢新闻

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Emirates company to build world’s largest solar plant

The Abu Dhabi-based Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC) signed a power purchase agreement with a consortium for the construction of the world’s largest solar power plant located in the United Arab Emirates, according to a recent statement by the company.

The consortium will be led by Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) and Masdar, with partners EDF and JinkoPower.

Upon completion, the solar power plant will have a capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW) in the Al Dhafra region located approximately 35 kilometers from Abu Dhabi.

The plant is also expected to reduce Abu Dhabi’s CO2 emissions by more than 2.4 million metric tonnes per year, equivalent to removing approximately 470,000 cars from the road.

"We are working to secure long-term energy supply and reinforce solar power’s integral role in meeting current and future energy needs," Othman Al Ali, chief executive officer of EWEC, was quoted as saying in the statement.

The power plant will begin initial power generation in the first half of 2022 and full generation by the second half of 2022, the statement read.

Jasim Husain Thabet, managing director of ?TAQA, said the plant would increase Abu Dhabi’s solar power capacity to approximately 3.2 GW and stressed the project’s low tariff which would help meet the UAE's ambitious energy objectives outlined in its Energy Strategy 2050.

The Al Dhafra Solar PV project is expected to provide approximately 160,000 households across the UAE with electricity. It will be larger than TAQA’s existing 1.2 GW Noor Abu Dhabi solar plant, which is currently the world’s largest operational single-project solar PV plant.